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Originally Posted by spyretto
And basically, modern democracy is a load of bollocks; .... If that is demo-cracy, the "rule of the people" then I'm Mahatma Ghandi. They better go back and see what democracy used to be in the times of Ancient Athens.
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It´s a subjective point of view.....it´s true that in the "Ancient Athens", citizens had the power to vote for another chief of war if they thought that the present wasn´t enough good but.. among other things, foreigners,
Slaves and Women...couldn´t vote..
Moreover,
Platon thought that a "democracy with a such quality or performance" could only take place
in a city having at maximum 7000 habitants... with more habitants, the idea of democracy would be associated with less quality.